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...nearby Chicago suburb. Kirk, in fact, is widely viewed as the kind of Republican social-moderate that Steele believes can succeed in Democratic-leaning states like Illinois. However, Kirk's moderate stances on issues like abortion and stem-cell research could prove problematic with social conservatives, particularly in the southern part of the state...
...great diversity of peoples who worked on the Canal: "Although most [non white-American] employees came from the Caribbean, many traveled to the Canal Zone from southern Europe, from India and from other parts of Latin America. The 1912 census included as employees of the [Isthmian Canal Commission] or the Panama Railroad one thousand Panamanians, eight hundred Italians, thirteen hundred Greeks, thirty-five hundred Spaniards, and smaller numbers of East Indians, Portuguese, Ecuadorians, Peruvians, Venezuelans, Colombians, Mexicans, Hondurans, Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans...
...settle the issue, the state commission hopes to enlist the help of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct the study. Meanwhile, opponents have organized and circulated petitions and enlisted the help of environmental groups, including the Southern Environmental Law Center in Charlottesville. Virginia Uranium for its part has agreed to merge with a Canadian mining company, Santoy Resources of British Columbia, to ensure it has the capital to press forward with its mining plans. In the end, insists Walter Coles, head of Virginia Uranium, there will be no mining if it puts the environment at risk...
...influential New York Archdiocese, which is responsible for some 2.5 million Catholics, includes 405 parishes extending from the boroughs of Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx to several southern counties in the Empire State. It has been struggling in recent years because of financial troubles, shrinking parochial school attendees and the lingering fallout of the sex-abuse crisis...
Cruise Now. If you've never been much for cruising, now might be the time to reconsider - cruises are getting cheaper and more enticing by the day. Holland America Line, for one, is ginning up new itineraries throughout the Southern Hemisphere aboard the 1,432-passenger Volendam, including a 34-day circumnavigation of Australia, departing March 14, with stops at the Great Barrier Reef and 18 ports of call. Fares start...